Could be a video driver and / or your video card.   ------------------------ Keith Smith On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:26 AM, George Toft wrote: Hard drive failures usually have sound associated with them - a new brrr brrr brrr coming from the drive, and errors in /var/log/messages.  man smartctl is your friend.  You'll run something like smartctl -i /dev/sda Regards, George Toft On 12/30/2013 3:39 PM, Michael Havens wrote: oh hey..... I forgot to mention that the sound continues as if all was well. it doesn't even miss a beat. > > >:-)~MIKE~(-: > > >On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >I hsve my computer on and suddenly X crashes and on the screen there is: >> >>      *Pulse Audio >> >> and a bunch of other text scattered about the screen. Now this happened before and I think it had to do with the hard drive being bad. Does that sound right? >> >>:-)~MIKE~(-: > > > >--------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss